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Tribeca 2015: ‘Thought Crimes’ Finds Troubling Questions in the Case of the ‘Cannibal Cop’

Tribeca 2015: ‘Thought Crimes’ Finds Troubling Questions in the Case of the ‘Cannibal Cop’

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Christopher Campbell
Apr 22, 2015
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Tribeca 2015: ‘Thought Crimes’ Finds Troubling Questions in the Case of the ‘Cannibal Cop’
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Gilberto Valle, the “Cannibal Cop,” never ate anyone. Can he still be called a cannibal if he only fantasized about it on the Internet? When he was arrested, the government asserted that conversations he had on the online community DarkFetishNet amounted to a conspiracy to kidnap. Defenders of Valle have insisted that this is an example of prosecution f…

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